If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.
TOM LANDRYEvery coach has his own style of play, but when you spend your whole life as a Cowboy, you have to be influenced by what we did.
More Tom Landry Quotes
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You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.
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The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
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As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.
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When a big play occurs for our team, I’m concentrating on how the defense is reacting to it.
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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.
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I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.
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Really, coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think that they can.
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Right after the game, say as little as possible.
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I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.
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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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Achievement builds character.
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There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.
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Being the best at whatever talent you have, that’s what stimulates life.
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If you don’t believe in winning, you don’t believe in free enterprise, capitalism, our way of life.
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